Filatima

Taxobox
name = Filatima
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Lepidoptera
familia = Gelechiidae
genus = "Filatima"

Filatima is a genus of moth in the family Gelechiidae.

In November 2005, an infestation of "Filatima" caterpillars were found to be stunting the revegetation activity of land destroyed by the eruption of Mount St. Helens in Washington ["Caterpillars keep volcano bare." "New Scientist" 188.2525 (12 Nov 2005): 23.] .

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